Antonia White

Antonia White ( born March 1, 1899 in London, England, † April 10, 1980 same place ) was a British writer.

Life

White came as Eirine Botting in an Anglican- Protestant household to the world. Her father was a teacher of Greek and Latin at St. Paul's School in London. When her father converted to the Roman Catholic Church, she was also, at the age of seven years, Catholic. She attended Catholic boarding school of the Sacred Heart Sisters in Roehampton south west of the center of London, today Woldingham School in Surrey.

White began as a 15 -year-old to write in their schooling and wanted the manuscript after the completion of their father present. With a story about morally depraved people in sensational manner were converted to the faith, she wanted to surprise him. She tried to sit in a detailed description, but brought primarily to paper that they had " surrendered to unspeakable vices ." The manuscript was only half finished, found and led to their immediate expulsion from school without one would have given White a chance to explain it. It was not until 15 years after this incident, and after the death of her father, she began to write again.

Married life

White married in 1921 the first of her three husbands. This marriage, however, was canceled after two years because they were never vollzoge to its specifications. Then she fell in love with Robert, who was an officer in the Scots Guards. After an intensive two-year relationship the couple separated. White had a nervous breakdown and spent the next year at London sanatorium Bethlam. As soon as she could leave the hospital, she was engaged for four years with the ideas of Sigmund Freud; However, their nervous disease it " the beast " described as, she could not repress to end of life.

Antonia White's second husband was Eric Earnshaw Smith, from whom she was divorced after two years of marriage. During this time she had fallen in love but also in two other men: the first was the engineer Rudolph Silas Glossop. The second, Copywriter Tom Hopkinson, she married after her divorce. The two daughters from this marriage Lyndall Hopkinson and Susan Chitty both wrote each autobiographical books about the hard and difficult relationship with her ​​mother.

Life as a writer

White learned in 1931 the novelist Djuna Barnes. 1933 was her first novel Frost in May (German Maifrost ) finished, the described her experiences in Catholic boarding school and their exclusion from school in a slightly unfamiliar form. Her second novel, she began, but was not completed because of a renewed divorce and mental illness. A publication of the novel The Lost Traveller took place after nearly 20 years, 1950.

Publications

  • Minka and Lionheart: A stone's novel. Insel Verlag, Frankfurt / Leipzig 2001, ISBN 3-458-34464-0. English: Minka and Curdy. Children's Book. Harvill 1957.
  • Frost in May Harmsworth 1933, reprint: Virago, London 1978
  • English: The Hound and the Falcon: The Story of a Reconversion to Catholic Faith. Longmans, London 1965, reprint: Virago, London 1980.
  • English: Beyond the Glass. Eyre and Spottiswoode 1952 Reprint: Virago, London 1979.
  • English: The Sugar House. Eyre and Spottiswoode 1952 Reprint: Virago, London 1979.
  • As once in May: The early Autobiography of Antonia White and other Writings, Virago, London, 1983, ISBN 0-86068352-4.
  • Living with Minka and Curdy, Childrens ' Book, Harvill, London, 1970.
  • Strangers. Harvill Press, 1954, reprint: Virago, London 1981.
  • Three in a Room: comedy in three acts. French 's Acting Edition, 1947.
  • Frost in May Tauchnitz, Leipzig 1934.
  • Susan Chitty (Ed.): Diaries. Viking, New York City, USA 1982, ISBN 0-670-83564-1.
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